Historic Towns & Villages
Historic Towns & Villages
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Saltaire Victorian utopian workers village built by entrepreneur Sir Titus Salt in the 1850s http://www.saltairevillage.info/
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Bournville Model Workers Village, Birmingham - built by George and John Cadbury in the late 1870s to house and improve the lives of workers at their chocolate factory.
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Port Sunlight on the Wirral, Merseyside. Built from 1888 by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory (now part of Unilever)
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Bata Houses on the Bata Estate, East Tilsbury build by Czech shoe entrepreneur Tomáš Bata in the 1930s.
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Silver End, Braintree, Essex. Built for their workers by the Crittall Windows company.
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Trowse, Norfolk. An existing village was expanded by the Colman family during the 1800s for workers at Colman's mustard factory.
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Tyneham, a ghost village near Lulworth Coven in Dorset. The Whole village was requisitioned in 1943 for use as an army firing range but is open for visitors.
Reconstructed & Museum Towns
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Weald & Down Museum, West Sussex http://www.wealddown.co.uk/
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Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. A collection of restored, historic buildings from the industrial past of the West Midlands.
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Little Woodham Living History Museum near Gosport, Hampshire a recreated 17th century village.
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Beamish Museum, a living, working museum that tells the story of everyday life in the North East of England http://www.beamish.org.uk/
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The Black Country Living Museum, Dudley tells the story of one of the very first industrialised landscapes in Britain.
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Chiltern Open Air Museum was founded in 1976 with the aim of rescuing threatened buildings from the local area. It now houses more than thirty historic buildings of all ages spanning 2000 years of Chilterns history. https://www.coam.org.uk/
